The slideshare examines the last 50+ years of technology, data, and analytics. It explores its impact on our personal and professional lives.

1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF
TECHNOLOGY, DATA, AND ANALYTICS
By: Stan Phelps

2. 1 0 0 Y E A R S A G O
THE STEAM ENGINE AND ELECTRICITY RADICALLY
CHANGED THE FIRST MACHINE AGE.

3. W E ’ V E N O W R E A C H E D
A N O T H E R I N F L E C T I O N P O I N T
A TIME WHERE BUSINESS CAN LEVERAGE THE ADVANCES IN
COMPUTER PROCESSING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND
NETWORKED COMMUNICATION…THE SECOND MACHINE AGE.
INFLECTION
POINT

4. A N I N F L E C T I O N P O I N T
LET’S LOOK AT THE PAST 50+ YEARS TO SEE HOW
WE’VE ARRIVED HERE FROM THE BOOK BLUE GOLDFISH

5. THE SILICON CHIP WAS INVENTED BY TWO AMERICAN
ENGINEERS, JACK KILBY AND ROBERT NOYCE.
1 9 6 1
KILBY NOYCE

6. INTEL FOUNDER NOYCE WAS BASED IN PALO ALTO
AND FAVORED SILICON FOR THE SEMICONDUCTOR.
HE PUT THE SILICON IN SILICON VALLEY.
1 9 6 1

7. 1 9 6 4
ROGER EASTON STARTS EXPERIMENTING WITH A WAY TO
TRACK SPUTNIK AND IT LEADS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GPS.

8. 1 9 6 7
GRAD STUDENT JAMES GOODNIGHT JOINS A PROJECT AT
NORTH CAROLINA STATE TO CREATE A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
SYSTEM (SAS) FOR UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS.

9. 1 9 6 9
NEIL ARMSTRONG BECOMES THE FIRST MAN TO
STEP ONTO THE SURFACE OF THE MOON.

10. 1 9 6 9
THE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY NETWORK
(ARPANET) IS LAUNCHED. J.C.R. LICKLIDER’S IDEA OF AN
INTERGALACTIC COMPUTER NETWORK STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE.

11. 1 9 7 0
GORDON MOORE COINS “MOORE’S LAW” BY STATING THAT
COMPUTING PROCESSOR SPEEDS AND COMPUTER POWER WILL
DOUBLE EVERY TWO YEARS. IT DOES FOR THE NEXT 40 YEARS.

12. 1 9 7 3
THE XEROX ALTO PERSONAL COMPUTER IS DEVELOPED
AT XEROX PARC. THE FIRST WITH A MOUSE DRIVEN
GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE.

13. 1 9 7 3
THE FIRST MOBILE CALL IS MADE. MOTOROLA’S MARTIN
COOPER CALLS A RIVAL PHONE COMPANY AND INFORMS
THEM HE IS SPEAKING VIA MOBILE.

14. 1 9 7 5
STEVE SASSON, A 24 YEAR OLD ENGINEER AT KODAK,
INVENTS THE PROCESS TO MAKE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

15. 1 9 7 5
STEVE JOBS AND STEVE WOZNIAK LAUNCH APPLE I.
A KIT COMPUTER, IT REQUIRES AN ADDITIONAL
KEYBOARD AND POWER SUPPLY.

16. D A N B R I C K L I N A N D B O B F R A N K S T O N I N T R O D U C E T H E F I R S T E L E C T R O N I C S P R E A D S H E E T
C A L L E D V I S I C A L C , T U R N I N G T H E P E R S O N A L C O M P U T E R I N T O A U S E F U L B U S I N E S S T O O L
1 9 7 8
DAN BRICKLIN AND BOB FRANKSTON INTRODUCE VISICALC.
THE FIRST ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET, IT TURNED THE
PERSONAL COMPUTER INTO A USEFUL BUSINESS TOOL.

17. 1 9 8 2
THE FIRST THING (AS IN IOT) CONNECTED TO THE
INTERNET WAS A COKE MACHINE AT CARNEGIE MELLON.

18. 1 9 8 3
ON A TRIP TO CATALINA ISLAND, FIVE MARKETERS
CONCEIVE AN ELECTRONIC ALTERNATIVE AT POINT OF
SALE THAT WOULD TRANSFORM THE RETAIL LANDSCAPE.

19. 1 9 8 3
MOTOROLA RELEASES THE FIRST COMMERCIAL
MOBILE PHONE. IT COSTS NEARLY $4,000.

20. 1 9 8 9
TIM BERNERS-LEE OF CERN INVENTS THE WORLD WIDE
WEB. THE FIRST WEBSITE AT CERN WAS DEDICATED TO
THE PROJECT ITSELF.

21. 1 9 9 0
QUANTUM COMPUTER SERVICES INTRODUCES PROMENADE,
AN ONLINE SERVICE FOR THE IBM PS/1. THE COMPANY
EVENTUALLY BECOMES AMERICAN ONLINE (AOL)

22. 1 9 9 1
LINUS TORVALDS, A STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
HELSINKI, INVENTS LINUX, A COMPLETELY FREE
OPEN SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEM.

23. 1 9 9 2
NEIL PAPWORTH, A 22 YEAR OLD TEST ENGINEER
S E N D S T H E F I R S T T E X T M E S S A G E . I T R E A D
“MERRY CHRISTMAS.”

24. 1 9 9 3
CERN PUT AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE WWW
SOFTWARE INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN WITH AN
OPEN LICENSE. THE WEB FLOURISHES.

25. 1 9 9 4
KATIE COURIC AND BRYANT GUMBEL INFAMOUSLY
S T U M B L E W H E N S E E I N G A N E M A I L A D D R E S S .
GUMBEL ASKS, “WHAT IS THE INTERNET ANYWAY?”

26. 1 9 9 4
JEFF BEZOS STARTS CADABRA. ONE YEAR LATER HE
CHANGES THE NAME TO AMAZON WHEN A LAWYER
MISHEARD THE ORIGINAL NAME AS CADAVER.

27. 1 9 9 5
PIERRE OMIDYAR AUCTIONS OFF A SINGLE BROKEN LASER
POINTER ON A SITE HE DEVELOPED. TO HIS SURPRISE IT
SELLS FOR $14.83. THE ONLINE AUCTION SITE WAS SOON
RENAMED EBAY. EBAY WAS SHORT FOR ECHO BAY, THE
NAME OF OMIDYAR’S CONSULTING FIRM.

28. 1 9 9 5
GOOGLE BEGINS AS A RESEARCH PROJECT BY
LARRY PAGE AND SERGEY BRIN. BOTH ARE PHD
STUDENTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

29. 1 9 9 9
KEVIN ASHTON COINS THE TERM "INTERNET OF
THINGS" WHILE WORKING AT AUTO-ID LABS.

30. 1 9 9 9
ORACLE EXECTIVE MARC BENIOFF INVITES THREE FRIENDS TO
HEAR A BUSINESS IDEA. IT GETS A LUKEWARM RESPONSE AT BEST .
DAVE MOELLENHOFF DOESN’T SUGARCOAT IT, “YOU’RE AN IDIOT,
THIS IS NEVER GOING TO WORK.” THE GROUP PRESSES ON AND
LAUNCHES SALESFORCE.

31. 2 0 0 0
CONFINITY AND X.COM MERGE TO SYNC WITH
THE NAME OF ITS PRODUCT… PAYPAL.

32. 2 0 0 0
THE US GOVERNMENT STOPS INTENTIONALLY
DEGRADING GPS SIGNALS, NOW MAKING THEM
10 TIMES MORE ACCURATE.

33. 2 0 0 1
A F R E E U S E R - G E N E R A T E D E N C Y C L O P E D I A C A L L E D
W I K I P E D I A C O M E S O N L I N E A N D B E C O M E S T H E
REFERENCE SITE OF CHOICE FOR INTERNET USERS.

34. 2 0 0 2
D O U G C U T T I N G A N D M I K E C A F A R E L L A C R E A T E T H E
UNDERLYING FILE SYSTEMS AND PROCESSING FRAMEWORK
THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME HADOOP.

35. 2 0 0 2
A M A Z O N L A U N C H E S A M A Z O N W E B S E R V I C E S , A S U I T E O F C L O U D
B A S E D S E R V I C E S T H A T I N C L U D E S T O R A G E A N D C O M P U T A T I O N .

36. 2 0 0 3
500 MILLION DEVICES ARE CONNECTED TO THE
INTERNET. ONE DEVICE FOR EVERY 12 PEOPLE
ON THE PLANET.

37. 2 0 0 3
S C I E N T I S T S A N N O U N C E T H E Y H A V E S E Q U E N C E D T H E E N T I R E
H U M A N G E N O M E T W O Y E A R S A H E A D O F S C H E D U L E .
T H E 1 3 - Y E A R P R O J E C T S E T O U T T O I D E N T I F Y T H E 2 0 , 0 0 0 T O
2 5 , 0 0 0 G E N E S I N H U M A N D N A .

38. 2 0 0 3
C H R I S S T O L T E A N D P A T H A N R A H A N I N V E N T A T E C H N O L O G Y C A L L E D
V I Z Q L . I T M A K E S D A T A B A S E S A N D S P R E A D S H E E T S U N D E R S T A N D A B L E .
D A T A V I S U A L I Z A T I O N A N D F A S T A N A L Y T I C S B E C O M E T H E B A S I S
F O R F O U N D I N G T A B L E A U .

39. 1 9 - Y E A R O L D H A R V A R D S O P H O M O R E N A M E D M A R K Z U C K E R B E R G
L A U N C H E S T H E F A C E B O O K . C O M F R O M H I S D O R M R O O M
2 0 0 4
19 YEAR OLD HARVARD SOPHOMORE MARK ZUCKERBERG
STARTS THEFACEBOOK.COM FROM HIS DORM ROOM.

40. 2 0 0 5
YOUTUBE IS FOUNDED. THE IDEA WAS BORN AT A DINNER
PARTY IN SAN FRANCISCO AND WAS INSPIRED BY A TSUNAMI
AND JANET JACKSON’S WARDROBE MALFUNCTION.

41. 2 0 0 6
D O U G C U T T I N G B E G I N S W O R K I N G A T Y A H O O . T H E Y S P I N O U T T H E
S T O R A G E A N D P R O C E S S I N G P A R T O F N U T C H T O C R E A T E H A D O O P .
W H Y H A D O O P ? I T W A S N A M E D A F T E R C U T T I N G ’ S S O N ’ S S T U F F E D
E L E P H A N T .

42. 2 0 0 6
JACK DORSEY SEND THE FIRST MESSAGE ON TWITTER
ON 3/21/06. IT READ, “JUST SETTING UP MY TWTTR.”

43. 2 0 0 7
W A Z E I S F O U N D E D . T H E I S R A E L I C O M P A N Y D E V E L O P S A F R E E M A P P I N G
A N D T U R N - B Y - T U R N N A V I G A T I O N A P P F O R I O S A N D A N D R O I D D E V I C E S .

44. 2 0 0 7
T O M P R E S T O N - W E R N E R C R E A T E S A W E B S I T E T H A T A C T S A S A H U B
F O R C O D E R S T O S H A R E T H E I R G I T R E P O S I T O R I E S . M O R E T H A N 1 2
M I L L I O N D E V E L O P E R S C O N T R I B U T E T O O V E R 3 1 M I L L I O N P R O J E C T S
B Y U S I N G T H I S C O L L A B O R A T I V E W O R K F L O W .

45. 2 0 0 7
NAMED AFTER ITS FOUNDER, IBM WATSON IS BORN

46. 2 0 0 8
THE ONE BILLIONTH PERSONAL COMPUTER IS SOLD

47. 2 0 0 9
U S A A , A P R I V A T E L Y H E L D B A N K A N D I N S U R A N C E C O M P A N Y ,
B E C O M E S T H E F I R S T C O M P A N Y T O O F F E R M O B I L E C H E C K D E P O S I T .

48. 2 0 1 1
IBM’S WATSON APPEARS ON JEOPARDY AND… WINS.

49. 2 0 1 1
T H E O X F O R D D I C T I O N A R Y A D D E D T H E C O M M O N T E X T I N G
A C R O N Y M L O L ( L A U G H O U T L O U D ) T O I T S O F F I C I A L L I S T I N G S .

50. 2 0 1 3
OUT OF THE WORLD’S SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE, SIX
BILLION HAVE ACCESS TO MOBILE PHONES.
ONLY 4.5 BILLION HAVE ACCESS TO WORKING TOILETS.

51. 2 0 1 4
INTEL AND ITS PARTNERS ANNOUNCE THAT THEY WILL
BEGIN PRODUCTION OF 800 GIGABIT-PER-SECOND
OPTICAL NETWORK CABLES.

52. 2 0 1 5
AMAZON SURPASSES WALMART AS THE MOST VALUABLE
RETAILER IN THE US BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION.

53. 2 0 1 5
THE AVERAGE PERSON UNLOCKS THEIR SMARTPHONE 110
TIMES PER DAY.

54. In Blue Goldfish, Stan Phelps and Evan
Carroll make the business case for
leveraging technology, data, and
analytics to create increased customer
loyalty. Using the best of over 300
case studies, you’ll come away with
insights to create your own Blue
Goldfish.
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55. Author: Stan Phelps
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+1.919.360.4702

56. Author: Evan Carroll
evan@evancarroll.net
+1.910.540.3826

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